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<p align=center><b>Release 3.2: DB_INCOMPLETE</b></p>
<p>There are a number of functions that flush pages from the Berkeley DB shared
memory buffer pool to disk.  Most of those functions can potentially
fail because a page that needs to be flushed is not currently available.
However, this is not a hard failure and is rarely cause for concern.
In the Berkeley DB 3.2 release, the C++ API (if that API is configured to
throw exceptions) and the Java API have been changed so that this
failure does not throw an exception, but rather returns a non-zero error
code of DB_INCOMPLETE.</p>
<p>The following C++ methods will return DB_INCOMPLETE rather than throw
an exception: <a href="../../api_cxx/db_close.html">Db::close</a>, <a href="../../api_cxx/db_sync.html">Db::sync</a>, DbEnv::memp_sync,
DbEnv::txn_checkpoint, DbMpoolFile::memp_fsync.</p>
<p>The following Java methods are now declared "public int" rather than
"public void", and will return Db.DB_INCOMPLETE rather than throw an
exception: Db.close, Db.sync, and DbEnv.checkpoint.</p>
<p>It is likely that the only change required by any application will be
those currently checking for a DB_INCOMPLETE return that has
been encapsulated in an exception.</p>
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